--- title: Then the magician went back and related to the Sultan of the Indies… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the magician went back and related to the Sultan of the Indies all that had happened, and how very rich Prince Ahmed was since his marriage with the Fairy, richer than all the kings in the world, and how there was danger that he should come and take the throne from his father. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, that, rich Prince Ahmed, Ahmed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:52:12 # text = Then the magician went back and related to the Sultan of the Indies all that had happened, and how very rich Prince Ahmed was since his marriage with the Fairy, richer than all the kings in the world, and how there was danger that he should come and take the throne from his father. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Indies Indy PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 since since ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 richer rich ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 amod _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 44 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 45 expl _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 47 that that SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 acl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 conj _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 from from ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | past | the magician | | | | then | related *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | that | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | rich Prince Ahmed | | | | since Ahmed's marriage | with the Fairy | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | | danger | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | should | Ahmed | danger *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location danger=Theme | | 6 | **take** | infinitive | Ahmed *not said here* | the throne | | | | from Ahmed's father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent throne=Theme from father=Initial\_Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/13/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)